3.55 PM – 4.55 PM

Closing keynote: David Olusoga OBE

60 mins, Afternoon session

As we cut our ties from Europe and forge new trading relationships across the world what does our history reveal about contemporary society and the lasting effects of the British Empire? This historian, writer, broadcaster and author of Black and British: A Forgotten History discusses this key contemporary question.

The closing keynote is not available to digital passes.

David Olusoga

Historian and Broadcaster

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and film-maker. His most recent TV series include Empire (BBC 2), Black and British: A Forgotten History (BBC 2), The World’s War (BBC 2), 3 seasons of A House Through Time (BBC 2) and the BAFTA winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners (BBC 2).

David is also the author of Black & British: A Forgotten History which was awarded both the Longman-History Today Trustees Award and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. His other books include The World’s War, which won First World War Book of the Year in 2015, The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism and Civilizations: Encounters and the Cult of Progress. David was also a contributor to the Oxford Companion to Black British History and writes for The Guardian and is a columnist for The Observer and BBC History Magazine. 

He is also one of the three presenters on the BBC's landmark Arts series Civilizations